半天
bàn​tiān HSK1

long time

半天 bàn​tiān
long time numeral
a long time; quite a while

我等了你半天，你到底去哪儿了？

wǒ děng le nǐ bàn​tiān, nǐ dào​dǐ qù nǎ​r le?

I've been waiting for you for ages; where on earth have you been?

half day numeral
half of the day

我今天下午请了半天假。

wǒ jīn​tiān xià​wǔ qǐng le bàn​tiān jià.

I took half a day off this afternoon.

midair numeral
halfway to the sky; midair

他的风筝断了线，正飘在半天中。

tā de fēng​zheng duàn le xiàn, zhèng piāo zài bàn​tiān zhōng.

His kite's string broke, and it's floating in mid-air.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
25.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 1

Cross-References

Classifier

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)